First edition rebound in half red leather, with gold embossing to spine, with some wear (done for Struik by the monks in a monastery in Mozambique in the 1960's.) New endpapers.
First edition: 503 pages, frontispiece portrait of the author with a facsimile signature, colour folding map (foxed), 22 plates, 35 illustrations in the text, rebound in red half leather with some wear to gilt and edges of spine. Minimal light foxing to end papers. Contents bright, a good copy.
Czech (Dr. Kenneth P.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (Second enlarged edition, Trophy Room Press, 2011), pages 251-2 , 'In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880's and 1890's, Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambezi, Zweswi, and Manyami Rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montague Kerr and travelled into Matabeleland. Selous hunted more lions and rhinoceros, and vividly depicts an elephant hunt near the Zweswi River. In 1886, he hunted through Mashonaland, but was forced to escape after his camp was destroyed by hostile tribesmen. Eventually reaching the Zambezi, he hunted lion and lost a canoe to a hippopotamus. He concludes with a chapter on rifles, and another reflecting earlier sporting adventures after elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and others.'
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo (230 mm x 170 mm)
